New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday.
Soon after the meeting, the Telangana chief minister’s office informed that various issues pertaining to the state were discussed in the meeting.
Hon’ble Chief Minister Sri K. Chandrashekar Rao met Hon’ble Prime Minister Sri @NarendraModi Ji today in New Delhi and discussed various issues pertaining to the State. pic.twitter.com/Cg1T2cyBB8
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) December 26, 2018
Telangana Chief Minister’s visit to New Delhi has taken place after 15 days of the announcement of Telangana Assembly poll result in which Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won 88 seats out of a total of 119 seats.
Chief Minister Rao’s meeting with Prime Minister Modi also comes close on the heels of TRS chief’s meeting with his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on Sunday, and thereafter with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday.
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During his meeting with Patnaik, Chief Minister Rao, popularly known as KCR, had asserted that there is a dire need for the unification of regional parties to replace the Congress and the BJP at the Centre.
“The country needs a change for which dialogue has begun. We are doing our part but nothing concrete has emerged so far. We have just begun the dialogue. There is a strong need for an alternative to Congress and BJP,” Rao told media persons in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, which he repeated after meeting Chief Minister Banerjee in Kolkata too.
In New Delhi, Chief Minister Rao is also scheduled to meet Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. He is also likely to meet Union Ministers to discuss the issues related to Telangana.